Between Life and Thought: Existential Anthropology and the Study of Religion

Author:   Don Seeman ,  Devaka Premawardhana
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
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Pages:   278
Publication Date:   05 April 2024
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Author:   Don Seeman ,  Devaka Premawardhana
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.400kg
ISBN:  

9781487554750


ISBN 10:   1487554753
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   05 April 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Introduction: Religion, Phenomenological Anthropology, and the Existential Turn Devaka Premawardhana 1. Existential Anthropology and Religious Studies: A Personal Account Michael Jackson 2. Eye and Mind Revisited: The Work of Art in Ethnography Paul Stoller 3. Blood, Flesh, and Emotions: An Anthropologist and Her Fieldwork in Meatpacking Plants Kristy Nabhan-Warren 4. Recesses of the Ordinary: Michael Jackson’s Reinvention of Philosophical Anthropology Tyler Roberts 5. Ruta Graveolens: Open and Closed Bodies in a Bahian Town Mattijs van de Port 6. Destiny as a Relationship and a Theory Samuli Schielke 7. Worlds Colliding? Transnational Religion in Phenomenological Perspective Kim E. Knibbe 8. The Plain Sense of Things: Time, History, and the Dream Aditya Malik 9. Boundary Situations: An Existential Account of Wounded Healing Sónia Silva 10. Sartre’s Jews and Jackson’s Witches: What (Who) Is Real in Existential Anthropology? Don Seeman Afterword: “Not Ethnology but Ethnosophy!” Michael Lambek Contributor Biographies Index

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Don Seeman is an associate professor in the Department of Religion and the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University. Devaka Premawardhana is an associate professor in the Department of Religion and current occupant of a Winship Distinguished Research chair at Emory University.

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